About yesterday’s class in Remedial Fairy Viewing: for those who are open to the possibility, it was a class in ordinary practical techniques for attempting something nearly unbelievable. For anyone who isn’t open to the idea(and you probably did not attend), instructor Megan Mitchell still offered some wisdom. It was a talk about “the expansion […] Read More

Bold act for today: mentioning here that I’m on my way to a class in Remedial Fairy Viewing. More later. Add to del.icio.us - Stumble It! - Subscribe to this feed - Digg it Read More

Being a magazine junkie, I was flipping through an old issue of American Libraries this morning, and a folded poster slid out, large enough to cover all the cartoons and taped items on a professor’s door. It said: “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” This quote from T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” […] Read More

It’s a rare book that changes my life in an instant. In fact I think there may be only one (not counting the ones I’ve written.) Book 5 in my series of Rediscovered Treasures is Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, To Take Control of Your Life. What this book Boundaries does […] Read More

This afternoon in the writing group I’ve attended weekly for 26 years, a writer read from a book that none of us knew she’d been writing. And it is terrific! It is splendid! And she has a huge amount of it done. This event is roughly equivalent to discovering that your next-door neighbor of 20+ […] Read More

My psychologist husband tells me I like to create “Great Wall of China projects.” And it’s true that I seem drawn to doing things the hard way. For example, I made a quilt with a needle and thread. But I’d rather not have to do everything the most difficult way, or the high-stress bear-down-hard way, […] Read More

After a couple of days away, back to my list of rediscovered treasures. Number Three (not in order of importance) is <a href=" Julia Cameron's seminal, world-changing, now-classic The Artist's Way. The book is inspiring and encouraging in ways all its own. And at the same time it delivers two ideas that are bold in […] Read More

Wonderful wisdom today from the Daily Om on making decisions: “Before making your choice, release your fear of wrong decisions. Perceived mistakes can lead you down wonderful and unexpected paths that expose you to life-changing insights. If you can let go of the notion that certain choices are utterly right while others are entirely wrong, […] Read More

Women Who Run with the Wolves is Book 2 in my series of rediscovered treasures. I remember well when it came out because I was then in the editing process of the book I co-authored, The Healing Power of Doing Good, and working with the same publisher. And so on the phone one day, I […] Read More

The Jonah Complex is what Abraham Maslow calls the business of turning down our most profound callings: “The evasion of one’s own growth, the setting of low levels of aspiration, the fear of doing what one is capable of doing, voluntary self-crippling, pseudo-stupidity, mock humility.” Personal Confessions: My Own Whale Tale Ten or so years […] Read More